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Yamada Y, Schaap P. Cyclic AMP induction of Dictyostelium prespore gene expression requires autophagy. Dev Biol 2019; 452:114-126. [PMID: 31051160 PMCID: PMC6598861 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2019.04.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2019] [Revised: 04/06/2019] [Accepted: 04/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Dictyostelium discoideum amoebas display colonial multicellularity where starving amoebas aggregate to form migrating slugs and fruiting bodies consisting of spores and three supporting cell types. To resolve the cell signalling mechanism that control sporulation, we use insertional mutagenesis of amoebas transformed with fusion constructs of spore genes and red fluorescent protein. We identified the defective gene in a mutant lacking spore gene expression as the autophagy gene Atg7. Directed knock-out of atg7 and of autophagy genes like atg5 and atg9 yielded a similar phenotype, with lack of viable spores and excessive differentiation of stalk cells. The atg7-, atg5- and atg9- cells were specifically defective in cAMP induction of prespore genes, but showed enhanced cAMP stimulation of prestalk genes at the same developmental stage. The lack of prespore gene induction in the autophagy mutants was not due to deleterious effects of loss of autophagy on known components of the cAMP pathway, such as cAMP receptors and their cAMP-induced phosphorylation and internalization, PKA and the transcription factors SpaA and GbfA, or to lack of NH3 production by proteolysis, which was previously suggested to stimulate the spore pathway. Our continued mutagenesis approach is the most likely to yield the intriguing link between autophagy and prespore gene induction. A screen for Dictyostelium sporulation mutants identified autophagy gene atg7. Atg7-, atg5-and atg9-cells cannot form viable spores, but show normal stalk formation. Atg7-, atg5-and atg9-are specifically defective in cAMP induction of prespore genes. Atg7-, atg5-and atg9-show normal to enhanced cAMP induction of prestalk genes. PKA overexpression does not restore sporulation in autophagy mutants.
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- Yoko Yamada
- School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, DD15EH, Dundee, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, DD15EH, Dundee, UK.
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Cheng Y, Othmer H. A Model for Direction Sensing in Dictyostelium discoideum: Ras Activity and Symmetry Breaking Driven by a Gβγ-Mediated, Gα2-Ric8 -- Dependent Signal Transduction Network. PLoS Comput Biol 2016; 12:e1004900. [PMID: 27152956 PMCID: PMC4859573 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004900] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2015] [Accepted: 04/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Chemotaxis is a dynamic cellular process, comprised of direction sensing, polarization and locomotion, that leads to the directed movement of eukaryotic cells along extracellular gradients. As a primary step in the response of an individual cell to a spatial stimulus, direction sensing has attracted numerous theoretical treatments aimed at explaining experimental observations in a variety of cell types. Here we propose a new model of direction sensing based on experiments using Dictyostelium discoideum (Dicty). The model is built around a reaction-diffusion-translocation system that involves three main component processes: a signal detection step based on G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) for cyclic AMP (cAMP), a transduction step based on a heterotrimetic G protein Gα2βγ, and an activation step of a monomeric G-protein Ras. The model can predict the experimentally-observed response of cells treated with latrunculin A, which removes feedback from downstream processes, under a variety of stimulus protocols. We show that [Formula: see text] cycling modulated by Ric8, a nonreceptor guanine exchange factor for [Formula: see text] in Dicty, drives multiple phases of Ras activation and leads to direction sensing and signal amplification in cAMP gradients. The model predicts that both [Formula: see text] and Gβγ are essential for direction sensing, in that membrane-localized [Formula: see text], the activated GTP-bearing form of [Formula: see text], leads to asymmetrical recruitment of RasGEF and Ric8, while globally-diffusing Gβγ mediates their activation. We show that the predicted response at the level of Ras activation encodes sufficient 'memory' to eliminate the 'back-of-the wave' problem, and the effects of diffusion and cell shape on direction sensing are also investigated. In contrast with existing LEGI models of chemotaxis, the results do not require a disparity between the diffusion coefficients of the Ras activator GEF and the Ras inhibitor GAP. Since the signal pathways we study are highly conserved between Dicty and mammalian leukocytes, the model can serve as a generic one for direction sensing.
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- Yougan Cheng
- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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Brzostowski JA, Sawai S, Rozov O, Liao XH, Imoto D, Parent CA, Kimmel AR. Phosphorylation of chemoattractant receptors regulates chemotaxis, actin reorganization and signal relay. J Cell Sci 2013; 126:4614-26. [PMID: 23902692 PMCID: PMC3795335 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.122952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Migratory cells, including mammalian leukocytes and Dictyostelium, use G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling to regulate MAPK/ERK, PI3K, TORC2/AKT, adenylyl cyclase and actin polymerization, which collectively direct chemotaxis. Upon ligand binding, mammalian GPCRs are phosphorylated at cytoplasmic residues, uncoupling G-protein pathways, but activating other pathways. However, connections between GPCR phosphorylation and chemotaxis are unclear. In developing Dictyostelium, secreted cAMP serves as a chemoattractant, with extracellular cAMP propagated as oscillating waves to ensure directional migratory signals. cAMP oscillations derive from transient excitatory responses of adenylyl cyclase, which then rapidly adapts. We have studied chemotactic signaling in Dictyostelium that express non-phosphorylatable cAMP receptors and show through chemotaxis modeling, single-cell FRET imaging, pure and chimeric population wavelet quantification, biochemical analyses and TIRF microscopy, that receptor phosphorylation is required to regulate adenylyl cyclase adaptation, long-range oscillatory cAMP wave production and cytoskeletal actin response. Phosphorylation defects thus promote hyperactive actin polymerization at the cell periphery, misdirected pseudopodia and the loss of directional chemotaxis. Our data indicate that chemoattractant receptor phosphorylation is required to co-regulate essential pathways for migratory cell polarization and chemotaxis. Our results significantly extend the understanding of the function of GPCR phosphorylation, providing strong evidence that this evolutionarily conserved mechanism is required in a signal attenuation pathway that is necessary to maintain persistent directional movement of Dictyostelium, neutrophils and other migratory cells.
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- Joseph A Brzostowski
- Laboratory of Immunogenetics Imaging Facility, NIAID/NIH, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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Liao XH, Buggey J, Lee YK, Kimmel AR. Chemoattractant stimulation of TORC2 is regulated by receptor/G protein-targeted inhibitory mechanisms that function upstream and independently of an essential GEF/Ras activation pathway in Dictyostelium. Mol Biol Cell 2013; 24:2146-55. [PMID: 23657816 PMCID: PMC3694798 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e13-03-0130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Protein kinase TORC2 is regulated by Ras response to distinct stimulatory ligands. Cells insensitive to one chemoattractant for TORC2 activation remain fully responsive to other ligands. Receptor-specific inhibitory circuits in Dictyostelium are found upstream and independent of GEF/Ras and downstream, feedback, or feedforward responses. Global stimulation of Dictyostelium with different chemoattractants elicits multiple transient signaling responses, including synthesis of cAMP and cGMP, actin polymerization, activation of kinases ERK2, TORC2, and phosphatidylinositide 3-kinase, and Ras-GTP accumulation. Mechanisms that down-regulate these responses are poorly understood. Here we examine transient activation of TORC2 in response to chemically distinct chemoattractants, cAMP and folate, and suggest that TORC2 is regulated by adaptive, desensitizing responses to stimulatory ligands that are independent of downstream, feedback, or feedforward circuits. Cells with acquired insensitivity to either folate or cAMP remain fully responsive to TORC2 activation if stimulated with the other ligand. Thus TORC2 responses to cAMP or folate are not cross-inhibitory. Using a series of signaling mutants, we show that folate and cAMP activate TORC2 through an identical GEF/Ras pathway but separate receptors and G protein couplings. Because the common GEF/Ras pathway also remains fully responsive to one chemoattractant after desensitization to the other, GEF/Ras must act downstream and independent of adaptation to persistent ligand stimulation. When initial chemoattractant concentrations are immediately diluted, cells rapidly regain full responsiveness. We suggest that ligand adaptation functions in upstream inhibitory pathways that involve chemoattractant-specific receptor/G protein complexes and regulate multiple response pathways.
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- Xin-Hua Liao
- Laboratory of Cellular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-8028, USA
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Sergé A, de Keijzer S, Van Hemert F, Hickman MR, Hereld D, Spaink HP, Schmidt T, Snaar-Jagalska BE. Quantification of GPCR internalization by single-molecule microscopy in living cells. Integr Biol (Camb) 2011; 3:675-83. [PMID: 21541374 DOI: 10.1039/c0ib00121j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Receptor internalization upon ligand stimulation is a key component of a cell's response and allows a cell to correctly sense its environment. Novel fluorescent methods have enabled the direct visualization of the agonist-stimulated G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCR) trafficking in living cells. However, it is difficult to observe internalization of GPCRs in vivo due to intrinsic autofluorescence and cytosolic signals of fluorescently labeled GPCRs. This study uses the superior positional accuracy of single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to visualize in real time the internalization of Dictyostelium discoideum cAMP receptors, cAR1, genetically encoded with eYFP. This technique made it possible to follow the number of receptors in time revealing that the fraction of cytosolic receptors increases after persistent agonist stimulation and that the majority of the receptors were degraded after internalization. The observed internalization process was phosphorylation dependent, as shown with the use of a phosphorylation deficient cAR1 mutant, cm1234-eYFP, or stimulation with an antagonist, Rp-cAMPS that does not induce receptor phosphorylation. Furthermore, experiments done in mound-stage cells suggest that intrinsic, phosphorylation-induced internalization of cAR1 is necessary for Dictyostelium wild type cells to progress properly through multicellular development. To our knowledge, this observation illustrates for the first time phosphorylation-dependent internalization of single cAR1 molecules in living cells and its involvement in multicellular development. This very sensitive imaging of receptor internalization can be a useful and universal approach for pharmacological characterization of GPCRs in other cell types.
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- Arnauld Sergé
- Physics of Life Processes, Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9504, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Cells navigate with a local-excitation, global-inhibition-biased excitable network. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010; 107:17079-86. [PMID: 20864631 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1011271107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Cells have an internal compass that enables them to move along shallow chemical gradients. As amoeboid cells migrate, signaling events such as Ras and PI3K activation occur spontaneously on pseudopodia. Uniform stimuli trigger a symmetric response, whereupon cells stop and round up; then localized patches of activity appear as cells spread. Finally cells adapt and resume random migration. In contrast, chemotactic gradients continuously direct signaling events to the front of the cell. Local-excitation, global-inhibition (LEGI) and reaction-diffusion models have captured some of these features of chemotaxing cells, but no system has explained the complex response kinetics, sensitivity to shallow gradients, or the role of recently observed propagating waves within the actin cytoskeleton. We report here that Ras and PI3K activation move in phase with the cytoskeleton events and, drawing on all of these observations, propose the LEGI-biased excitable network hypothesis. We formulate a model that simulates most of the behaviors of chemotactic cells: In the absence of stimulation, there are spontaneous spots of activity. Stimulus increments trigger an initial burst of patches followed by localized secondary events. After a few minutes, the system adapts, again displaying random activity. In gradients, the activity patches are directed continuously and selectively toward the chemoattractant, providing an extraordinary degree of amplification. Importantly, by perturbing model parameters, we generate distinct behaviors consistent with known classes of mutants. Our study brings together heretofore diverse observations on spontaneous cytoskeletal activity, signaling responses to temporal stimuli, and spatial gradient sensing into a unified scheme.
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Swaney KF, Huang CH, Devreotes PN. Eukaryotic chemotaxis: a network of signaling pathways controls motility, directional sensing, and polarity. Annu Rev Biophys 2010; 39:265-89. [PMID: 20192768 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.093008.131228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 359] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Chemotaxis, the directed migration of cells in chemical gradients, is a vital process in normal physiology and in the pathogenesis of many diseases. Chemotactic cells display motility, directional sensing, and polarity. Motility refers to the random extension of pseudopodia, which may be driven by spontaneous actin waves that propagate through the cytoskeleton. Directional sensing is mediated by a system that detects temporal and spatial stimuli and biases motility toward the gradient. Polarity gives cells morphologically and functionally distinct leading and lagging edges by relocating proteins or their activities selectively to the poles. By exploiting the genetic advantages of Dictyostelium, investigators are working out the complex network of interactions between the proteins that have been implicated in the chemotactic processes of motility, directional sensing, and polarity.
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- Kristen F Swaney
- Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Riesselman M, Miettinen HM, Gripentrog JM, Lord CI, Mumey B, Dratz EA, Stie J, Taylor RM, Jesaitis AJ. C-Terminal Tail Phosphorylation of N-Formyl Peptide Receptor: Differential Recognition of Two Neutrophil Chemoattractant Receptors by Monoclonal Antibodies NFPR1 and NFPR2. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 2007; 179:2520-31. [PMID: 17675514 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.179.4.2520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The N-formyl peptide receptor (FPR), a G protein-coupled receptor that binds proinflammatory chemoattractant peptides, serves as a model receptor for leukocyte chemotaxis. Recombinant histidine-tagged FPR (rHis-FPR) was purified in lysophosphatidyl glycerol (LPG) by Ni(2+)-NTA agarose chromatography to >95% purity with high yield. MALDI-TOF mass analysis (>36% sequence coverage) and immunoblotting confirmed the identity as FPR. The rHis-FPR served as an immunogen for the production of 2 mAbs, NFPR1 and NFPR2, that epitope map to the FPR C-terminal tail sequences, 305-GQDFRERLI-313 and 337-NSTLPSAEVE-346, respectively. Both mAbs specifically immunoblotted rHis-FPR and recombinant FPR (rFPR) expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells. NFPR1 also recognized recombinant FPRL1, specifically expressed in mouse L fibroblasts. In human neutrophil membranes, both Abs labeled a 45-75 kDa species (peak M(r) approximately 60 kDa) localized primarily in the plasma membrane with a minor component in the lactoferrin-enriched intracellular fractions, consistent with FPR size and localization. NFPR1 also recognized a band of M(r) approximately 40 kDa localized, in equal proportions to the plasma membrane and lactoferrin-enriched fractions, consistent with FPRL1 size and localization. Only NFPR2 was capable of immunoprecipitation of rFPR in detergent extracts. The recognition of rFPR by NFPR2 is lost after exposure of cellular rFPR to f-Met-Leu-Phe (fMLF) and regained after alkaline phosphatase treatment of rFPR-bearing membranes. In neutrophils, NFPR2 immunofluorescence was lost upon fMLF stimulation. Immunoblotting approximately 60 kDa species, after phosphatase treatment of fMLF-stimulated neutrophil membranes, was also enhanced. We conclude that the region 337-346 of FPR becomes phosphorylated after fMLF activation of rFPR-expressing Chinese hamster ovary cells and neutrophils.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/chemistry
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- CHO Cells
- Cell Membrane/chemistry
- Cell Membrane/genetics
- Cell Membrane/immunology
- Cell Membrane/metabolism
- Chemotaxis/drug effects
- Chemotaxis/genetics
- Chemotaxis/immunology
- Chromatography, Affinity
- Cricetinae
- Cricetulus
- Epitope Mapping
- Epitopes/chemistry
- Epitopes/genetics
- Epitopes/immunology
- Fibroblasts/immunology
- Fibroblasts/metabolism
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Lactoferrin/chemistry
- Lactoferrin/genetics
- Lactoferrin/immunology
- Lactoferrin/metabolism
- Lysophospholipids/chemistry
- Mice
- Models, Immunological
- N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine/analogs & derivatives
- N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine/chemistry
- N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine/immunology
- N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine/metabolism
- N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine/pharmacology
- Neutrophils/chemistry
- Neutrophils/immunology
- Neutrophils/metabolism
- Phosphorylation/drug effects
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/drug effects
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/genetics
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/immunology
- Protein Structure, Tertiary/genetics
- Receptors, Formyl Peptide/chemistry
- Receptors, Formyl Peptide/genetics
- Receptors, Formyl Peptide/immunology
- Receptors, Formyl Peptide/isolation & purification
- Receptors, Formyl Peptide/metabolism
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/chemistry
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/immunology
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
- Spodoptera
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- Marcia Riesselman
- Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
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Tomlin CJ, Axelrod JD. Biology by numbers: mathematical modelling in developmental biology. Nat Rev Genet 2007; 8:331-40. [PMID: 17440530 DOI: 10.1038/nrg2098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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In recent years, mathematical modelling of developmental processes has earned new respect. Not only have mathematical models been used to validate hypotheses made from experimental data, but designing and testing these models has led to testable experimental predictions. There are now impressive cases in which mathematical models have provided fresh insight into biological systems, by suggesting, for example, how connections between local interactions among system components relate to their wider biological effects. By examining three developmental processes and corresponding mathematical models, this Review addresses the potential of mathematical modelling to help understand development.
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- Claire J Tomlin
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
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Zhang M, Goswami M, Hereld D. Constitutively active G protein-coupled receptor mutants block dictyostelium development. Mol Biol Cell 2004; 16:562-72. [PMID: 15574880 PMCID: PMC545893 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e04-06-0456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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cAR1, a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) for cAMP, is required for the multicellular development of Dictyostelium. The activation of multiple pathways by cAR1 is transient because of poorly defined adaptation mechanisms. To investigate this, we used a genetic screen for impaired development to isolate four dominant-negative cAR1 mutants, designated DN1-4. The mutant receptors inhibit multiple cAR1-mediated responses known to undergo adaptation. Reduced in vitro adenylyl cyclase activation by GTPgammaS suggests that they cause constitutive adaptation of this and perhaps other pathways. In addition, the DN mutants are constitutively phosphorylated, which normally requires cAMP binding and possess cAMP affinities that are approximately 100-fold higher than that of wild-type cAR1. Two independent activating mutations, L100H and I104N, were identified. These residues occupy adjacent positions near the cytoplasmic end of the receptor's third transmembrane helix and correspond to the (E/D)RY motif of numerous mammalian GPCRs, which is believed to regulate their activation. Taken together, these findings suggest that the DN mutants are constitutively activated and block development by turning on natural adaptation mechanisms.
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- Minghang Zhang
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Veltman DM, Bosgraaf L, Van Haastert PJM. Unusual Guanylyl Cyclases and cGMP Signaling in Dictyostelium discoideum. VITAMINS AND HORMONES 2004; 69:95-115. [PMID: 15196880 DOI: 10.1016/s0083-6729(04)69004-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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cGMP is used as a second messenger in many eukaryotes. cGMP signaling requires at least three components: Guanylyl cyclases synthesize cGMP from GTP. Specific cGMP-binding proteins propagate the signal, usually by phosphorylation of their target proteins. Finally, phosphodiesterases terminate the cGMP signal by hydrolyzing cGMP to 5'cGMP. Recently, all guanylyl cyclases and most of the cGMP target proteins and phosphodiesterases of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum have been identified. Characterization of these enzymes show them to be structurally and evolutionarily distinct from their bacterial and metazoan counterparts. In this chapter we review the properties of the Dictyostelium guanylyl cyclases and discuss their role in the unusual cGMP pathway of Dictyostelium.
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- Douwe M Veltman
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands
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Sun B, Firtel RA. A regulator of G protein signaling-containing kinase is important for chemotaxis and multicellular development in dictyostelium. Mol Biol Cell 2003; 14:1727-43. [PMID: 12686622 PMCID: PMC153135 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e02-08-0550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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We have identified a gene encoding RGS domain-containing protein kinase (RCK1), a novel regulator of G protein signaling domain-containing protein kinase. RCK1 mutant strains exhibit strong aggregation and chemotaxis defects. rck1 null cells chemotax approximately 50% faster than wild-type cells, suggesting RCK1 plays a negative regulatory role in chemotaxis. Consistent with this finding, overexpression of wild-type RCK1 reduces chemotaxis speed by approximately 40%. On cAMP stimulation, RCK1 transiently translocates to the membrane/cortex region with membrane localization peaking at approximately 10 s, similar to the kinetics of membrane localization of the pleckstrin homology domain-containing proteins CRAC, Akt/PKB, and PhdA. RCK1 kinase activity also increases dramatically. The RCK1 kinase activity does not rapidly adapt, but decreases after the cAMP stimulus is removed. This is particularly novel considering that most other chemoattractant-activated kinases (e.g., Akt/PKB, ERK1, ERK2, and PAKa) rapidly adapt after activation. Using site-directed mutagenesis, we further show that both the RGS and kinase domains are required for RCK1 function and that RCK1 kinase activity is required for the delocalization of RCK1 from the plasma membrane. Genetic evidence suggests RCK1 function lies downstream from Galpha2, the heterotrimeric G protein that couples to the cAMP chemoattractant receptors. We suggest that RCK1 might be part of an adaptation pathway that regulates aspects of chemotaxis in Dictyostelium.
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- Binggang Sun
- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla California 92093-0634, USA
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Briscoe C, Moniakis J, Kim JY, Brown JM, Hereld D, Devreotes PN, Firtel RA. The phosphorylated C-terminus of cAR1 plays a role in cell-type-specific gene expression and STATa tyrosine phosphorylation. Dev Biol 2001; 233:225-36. [PMID: 11319871 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2001.0217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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cAMP receptors mediate some signaling pathways via coupled heterotrimeric G proteins, while others are G-protein-independent. This latter class includes the activation of the transcription factors GBF and STATa. Within the cellular mounds formed by aggregation of Dictyostelium, micromolar levels of cAMP activate GBF function, thereby inducing the transcription of postaggregative genes and initiating multicellular differentiation. Activation of STATa, a regulator of culmination and ecmB expression, results from cAMP receptor-dependent tyrosine phosphorylation and nuclear localization, also in mound-stage cells. During mound development, the cAMP receptor cAR1 is in a low-affinity state and is phosphorylated on multiple serine residues in its C-terminus. This paper addresses possible roles of cAMP receptor phosphorylation in the cAMP-mediated stimulation of GBF activity, STATa tyrosine phosphorylation, and cell-type-specific gene expression. To accomplish this, we have expressed cAR1 mutants in a strain in which the endogenous cAMP receptors that mediate postaggregative gene expression in vivo are deleted. We then examined the ability of these cells to undergo morphogenesis and induce postaggregative and cell-type-specific gene expression and STATa tyrosine phosphorylation. Analysis of cAR1 mutants in which the C-terminal tail is deleted or the ligand-mediated phosphorylation sites are mutated suggests that the cAR1 C-terminus is not essential for GBF-mediated postaggregative gene expression or STATa tyrosine phosphorylation, but may play a role in regulating cell-type-specific gene expression and morphogenesis. A mutant receptor, in which the C-terminal tail is constitutively phosphorylated, exhibits constitutive activation of STATa tyrosine phosphorylation in pulsed cells in suspension and a significantly impaired ability to induce cell-type-specific gene expression. The constitutively phosphorylated receptor also exerts a partial dominant negative effect on multicellular development when expressed in wild-type cells. These findings suggest that the phosphorylated C-terminus of cAR1 may be involved in regulating aspects of receptor-mediated processes, is not essential for GBF function, and may play a role in mediating subsequent development.
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- C Briscoe
- Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0634, USA
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Janetopoulos C, Jin T, Devreotes P. Receptor-mediated activation of heterotrimeric G-proteins in living cells. Science 2001; 291:2408-11. [PMID: 11264536 DOI: 10.1126/science.1055835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 351] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Receptor-mediated activation of heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins (G-proteins) was visualized in living Dictyostelium discoideum cells by monitoring fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between alpha- and beta- subunits fused to cyan and yellow fluorescent proteins. The G-protein heterotrimer rapidly dissociated and reassociated upon addition and removal of chemoattractant. During continuous stimulation, G-protein activation reached a dose-dependent steady-state level. Even though physiological responses subsided, the activation did not decline. Thus, adaptation occurs at another point in the signaling pathway, and occupied receptors, whether or not they are phosphorylated, catalyze the G-protein cycle. Construction of similar energy-transfer pairs of mammalian G-proteins should enable direct in situ mechanistic studies and applications such as drug screening and identifying ligands of newly found G-protein-coupled receptors.
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- C Janetopoulos
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Root PA, Prince A, Gundersen RE. Aggregation ofDictyostelium discoideum is dependent on myristoylation and membrane localization of the G protein ?-subunit, G?2. J Cell Biochem 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19990801)74:2<301::aid-jcb14>3.0.co;2-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Laub MT, Loomis WF. A molecular network that produces spontaneous oscillations in excitable cells of Dictyostelium. Mol Biol Cell 1998; 9:3521-32. [PMID: 9843585 PMCID: PMC25668 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.12.3521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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A network of interacting proteins has been found that can account for the spontaneous oscillations in adenylyl cyclase activity that are observed in homogenous populations of Dictyostelium cells 4 h after the initiation of development. Previous biochemical assays have shown that when extracellular adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) binds to the surface receptor CAR1, adenylyl cyclase and the MAP kinase ERK2 are transiently activated. A rise in the internal concentration of cAMP activates protein kinase A such that it inhibits ERK2 and leads to a loss-of-ligand binding by CAR1. ERK2 phosphorylates the cAMP phosphodiesterase REG A that reduces the internal concentration of cAMP. A secreted phosphodiesterase reduces external cAMP concentrations between pulses. Numerical solutions to a series of nonlinear differential equations describing these activities faithfully account for the observed periodic changes in cAMP. The activity of each of the components is necessary for the network to generate oscillatory behavior; however, the model is robust in that 25-fold changes in the kinetic constants linking the activities have only minor effects on the predicted frequency. Moreover, constant high levels of external cAMP lead to attenuation, whereas a brief pulse of cAMP can advance or delay the phase such that interacting cells become entrained.
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- M T Laub
- Center for Molecular Genetics, Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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Krupnick JG, Benovic JL. The role of receptor kinases and arrestins in G protein-coupled receptor regulation. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol 1998; 38:289-319. [PMID: 9597157 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pharmtox.38.1.289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 755] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPRs) play a key role in controlling hormonal regulation of numerous second-messenger pathways. However, following agonist activation, most GPRs rapidly lose their ability to respond to hormone. For many GPRs, this process, commonly referred to as desensitization, appears to be primarily mediated by two protein families: G protein-coupled receptor kinases (GRKs) and arrestins. GRKs specifically bind to the agonist-occupied receptor, thereby promoting receptor phosphorylation, which in turn leads to arrestin binding. Arrestin binding precludes receptor/G protein interaction leading to functional desensitization. Many GPRs are then removed from the plasma membrane via clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Recent studies have implicated endocytosis in the resensitization of GPRs and have linked both GRKs and arrestins to this process. In this review, we discuss the role of GRKs and arrestins in regulating agonist-specific signaling and trafficking of GPRs.
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- J G Krupnick
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Kimmel Cancer Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
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Kim JY, Borleis JA, Devreotes PN. Switching of chemoattractant receptors programs development and morphogenesis in Dictyostelium: receptor subtypes activate common responses at different agonist concentrations. Dev Biol 1998; 197:117-28. [PMID: 9578623 DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.8882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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One of the common functional features among G-protein coupled receptors is the occurrence of multiple subtypes involved in similar signal transduction events. The cAMP chemoattractant receptor family of Dictyostelium discoideum is composed of four receptors (cAR1-cAR4), which are expressed sequentially throughout the developmental transition from a unicellular to a multicellular organism. The receptors differ in affinity for cAMP and in the sequences of their C-terminal domains. In this study, we constitutively expressed cAR1, cAR2, and cAR3 as well as a series of chimeric and mutant receptors and assessed the capacity of each to mediate chemotaxis, activation of adenylyl cyclase and actin polymerization, and rescue the developmental defect of car1-/car3- cells. We found that various receptors and mutants sense different concentration ranges of cAMP but all can mediate identical responses during the aggregation stage of development. The responses displayed very similar kinetics, suggesting no major differences in regulatory properties attributable to the C-terminal domains. We speculate that switching of receptor subtypes during development enables the organism to respond to the changing concentrations of the chemoattractant and thereby program morphogenesis appropriately.
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- J Y Kim
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Wang Y, Segall JE. The Dictyostelium MAP kinase DdERK2 functions as a cytosolic protein in complexes with its potential substrates in chemotactic signal transduction. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 244:149-55. [PMID: 9514860 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.8118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A polyclonal antibody against a MAP kinase (DdERK2) in Dictyostelium has been made and used to study DdERK2 activation and localization. The activation of DdERK2 by the chemoattractants cAMP and folate is rapid and transient. Its activity peaks between 15 and 60 seconds after cAMP stimulation and declines to basal levels after 5 minutes. In parallel with the DdERK2 activation is the appearance of a higher mobility band on Western blots. An antibody specific for activated MAP kinase shows that only the shifted band is tyrosine phosphorylated, suggesting that it is the active form. Both unstimulated and stimulated DdERK2 are soluble. In vitro phosphorylation with cell lysate supernatants or immunoprecipitates demonstrates the presence of several potential substrates, as identified by SDS-PAGE with mobility corresponding to molecular weights of 150, 25, and 19 kDa. Furthermore, immunoprecipitation studies suggest that these substrates are in a complex with DdERK2. These data suggest that DdERK2 works via cytoplasmic proteins to mediate signaling responses in Dictyostelium.
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- Y Wang
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
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Mutants lacking the MAP kinase DdERK2 show reduced chemotactic responses to folate and cAMP. Analysis of cAMP chemotaxis shows that Dderk2- cells are defective in chemotaxis to high concentrations of cAMP. This defect is due to an inability to repolarize in the continued presence of high concentrations of cAMP. Under these conditions, the speed of movement of mutant cells remains low. Instead of generating a leading pseudopod, mutant cells generate transient crown-like structures over multiple regions of the cell surface. These structures differ from pseudopods in that they contain myosin II as well as F actin and coronin. These studies identify a role for MAP kinases in coordinating the formation of cell projections generated in response to chemoattractants.
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- Y Wang
- Department of Anatomy, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Kim JY, Soede RD, Schaap P, Valkema R, Borleis JA, Van Haastert PJ, Devreotes PN, Hereld D. Phosphorylation of chemoattractant receptors is not essential for chemotaxis or termination of G-protein-mediated responses. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:27313-8. [PMID: 9341180 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.43.27313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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In several G-protein-coupled signaling systems, ligand-induced receptor phosphorylation by specific kinases is suggested to lead to desensitization via mechanisms including receptor/G-protein uncoupling, receptor internalization, and receptor down-regulation. We report here that elimination of phosphorylation of a chemoattractant receptor of Dictyostelium, either by site-directed substitution of the serines or by truncation of the C-terminal cytoplasmic domain, completely prevented agonist-induced loss of ligand binding but did not impair the adaptation of several receptor-mediated responses including the activation of adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases and actin polymerization. In addition, the phosphorylation-deficient receptors were capable of mediating chemotaxis, aggregation, and differentiation. We propose that for chemoattractant receptors agonist-induced phosphorylation regulates surface binding activity but other phosphorylation-independent mechanisms mediate response adaptation.
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- J Y Kim
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Milne JL, Caterina MJ, Devreotes PN. Random mutagenesis of the cAMP chemoattractant receptor, cAR1, of Dictyostelium. Evidence for multiple states of activation. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:2069-76. [PMID: 8999904 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.4.2069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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cAMP receptor 1 (cAR1) of Dictyostelium couples to the G protein G2 to mediate activation of adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases, chemotaxis, and cell aggregation. Other cAR1-dependent events, including receptor phosphorylation and influx of extracellular Ca2+, do not require G proteins. To further characterize signal transduction through cAR1, we performed random mutagenesis of the third intracellular loop (24 amino acids), since the corresponding region of other seven helix receptors has been implicated in the coupling to G proteins. Mutant receptors were expressed in car1(-) cells and were characterized for G protein-dependent and -independent signal transduction. Our results demonstrate that cAR1 is remarkably tolerant to amino acid substitutions in the third intracellular loop. Of the 21 positions where amino acid substitutions were observed, one or more replacements were found that retained full biological function. However, certain alterations resulted in receptors with reduced ability to bind cAMP and/or transduce signals. There were specific signal transduction mutants that could undergo cAMP-dependent cAR1 phosphorylation but were impaired either in coupling to G proteins, in G protein-independent Ca2+ influx, or in both pathways. In addition, there were general activation mutants that failed to restore aggregation to car1(-) cells and displayed severe defects in all signal transduction events, including the most robust response, cAMP-dependent cAR1 phosphorylation. Certain of these mutant phenotypes were obtained in a complementary study, where the entire region of cAR1 from the third to the seventh transmembrane helices was randomly mutagenized. Considered together, these studies indicate that the activation cycle of cAR1 may involve a number of distinct receptor intermediates. A model of G protein-dependent and -independent signal transduction through cAR1 is discussed.
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- J L Milne
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Kim JY, Caterina MJ, Milne JL, Lin KC, Borleis JA, Devreotes PN. Random mutagenesis of the cAMP chemoattractant receptor, cAR1, of Dictyostelium. Mutant classes that cause discrete shifts in agonist affinity and lock the receptor in a novel activational intermediate. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:2060-8. [PMID: 8999903 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.4.2060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The cAMP chemoattractant receptor, cAR1, of Dictyostelium transduces extracellular cAMP signals via G protein-dependent and G protein-independent mechanisms. While site-directed mutagenesis studies of G protein-coupled receptors have provided a host of information regarding the domains essential for various functions, many mechanistic and structural questions remain to be resolved. We therefore carried out polymerase chain reaction-mediated random mutagenesis over a large part of the cAR1 sequence (from TMIII through the proximal part of the cytoplasmic tail). We devised a rapid screen for loss-of-function mutations based on the essential role of cAR1 in the developmental program of Dictyostelium. Although there were an average of two amino acid substitutions per receptor, approximately 90% of the mutants were able to substitute for wild-type cAR1 when expressed in receptor null cells. About 2% were loss-of-function mutants that expressed wild-type levels of receptor protein. We used biochemical screens to select about 100 of these mutants and chose eight representative mutants for extensive characterization. These fell into distinct classes. One class had a conditional defect in cAMP binding that was reversed by high salt. Another large class had decreased affinity under all conditions. Curiously, the decreases were clustered into three discrete intervals. One of the most interesting class of mutants lost all capacity for signal transduction but was phosphorylated in response to agonist binding. This latter finding suggests that there are at least two activated states of cAR1 that can be recognized by different downstream effectors.
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- J Y Kim
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Firtel RA. Interacting signaling pathways controlling multicellular development in Dictyostelium. Curr Opin Genet Dev 1996; 6:545-54. [PMID: 8939724 DOI: 10.1016/s0959-437x(96)80082-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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cAMP functions as the key extracellular signaling molecule controlling Dictyostelium development acting through classic G-protein-coupled/serpentine receptors. Whereas aggregation is controlled by nanomolar pulses of cAMP, a more continuous micromolar signal controls multicellular differentiation by activating a transcriptional cascade via a receptor-mediated but non G-protein-coupled pathway. Potential mechanisms by which extracellular cAMP functions to differentially control aggregation followed by morphogenesis and cell-type differentiation are discussed. This review also summarizes new findings elucidating pathways controlling cell-type regulation in this organism, including signaling cascades mediated by glycogen synthase kinase 3 and cAMP-dependent protein kinase, key regulators of cell-type differentiation in metazoans, and newly identified transcription factors.
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- R A Firtel
- Department of Biology, Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0634, USA.
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Van Haastert PJ. Transduction of the chemotactic cAMP signal across the plasma membrane of Dictyostelium cells. EXPERIENTIA 1995; 51:1144-54. [PMID: 8536802 DOI: 10.1007/bf01944732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Aggregating Dictyostelium cells secrete cAMP during cell aggregation. cAMP induces two fast responses, the production of more cAMP (relay) and directed cell locomotion (chemotaxis). Extracellular cAMP binds to G-protein-coupled receptors leading to the activation of second messenger pathways, including the activation of adenylyl cyclase, guanylyl cyclase, phospholipase C and the opening of plasma membrane Ca2+ channels. Many genes encoding these sensory transduction proteins have been cloned and null mutants of nearly all components have been characterized in detail. Undoubtedly, activation of adenylyl cyclase is the most complex, involving G-proteins, a soluble protein called CRAC and components of the MAP kinase pathway. Null mutants in this pathway do not aggregate, but can exhibit chemotaxis and develop normally when supplied with exogenous cAMP. The pathways leading to the activation of phospholipase C were identified, but unexpectedly, deletion of the phospholipase C gene has no effect on chemotaxis and development, nor on intracellular Ins(1,4,5)P3 levels; the metabolism of this second messenger will be discussed in some detail. Activation of guanylyl cyclase is G-protein-dependent and essential for chemotaxis. Analysis of a collection of chemotactic mutants reveals that most mutants are defective in either the production or intracellular detection of cGMP, thereby placing this second messenger at the center of chemotactic signal transduction. Analysis of the cAMP-mediated opening of plasma membrane calcium channels in signal transduction mutants suggests that it has two components, one that depends on G-proteins and intracellular cGMP and one that is G-protein-independent.
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- P J Van Haastert
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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Caterina MJ, Devreotes PN, Borleis J, Hereld D. Agonist-induced loss of ligand binding is correlated with phosphorylation of cAR1, a G protein-coupled chemoattractant receptor from Dictyostelium. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:8667-72. [PMID: 7721769 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.15.8667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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The parallel agonist-induced phosphorylation, alteration in electrophoretic mobility, and loss of ligand binding of a guanine nucleotide-binding regulatory protein (G protein)-coupled chemoattractant receptor from Dictyostelium (cAR1) depend upon a cluster of five C-terminal domain serine residues (Caterina, M. J., Hereld, D., and Devreotes, P.N. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 4418-4423). Analysis of mutants lacking combinations of these serines revealed that either Ser303 or Ser304 is required; mutants lacking both serines are defective in all of these responses. Interestingly, several mutants, including those substituted at only Ser299, Ser302, or Ser303 or at non-serine positions within the third cytoplasmic loop, displayed an unstable mobility shift; the alteration was rapidly reversed upon cAMP removal. These mutants also exhibited subnormal extents of loss of ligand binding, which is assessed after removal of the ligand. For the wild-type receptor, we found that the stability of phosphorylation depends upon the concentration and duration of agonist pretreatment. This suggests that, following phosphorylation of Ser303 or Ser304, cAR1 undergoes a further transition (EC50 approximately 140 nM, t 1/2 approximately 4 min) to a relatively phosphatase-resistant state. We used this insight to show that, under all conditions tested, the extent of loss of binding is correlated with the fraction of cAR1 in the altered mobility form. We discuss possible relationships between cAR1 phosphorylation and loss of ligand binding.
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- M J Caterina
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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Milne JL, Wu L, Caterina MJ, Devreotes PN. Seven helix cAMP receptors stimulate Ca2+ entry in the absence of functional G proteins in Dictyostelium. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:5926-31. [PMID: 7534302 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.11.5926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Surface cAMP receptors (cARs) in Dictyostelium transmit a variety of signals across the plasma membrane. The best characterized cAR, cAR1, couples to the heterotrimeric guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G protein) alpha-subunit G alpha 2 to mediate activation of adenylyl and guanylyl cyclases and cell aggregation. cAR1 also elicits other cAMP-dependent responses including receptor phosphorylation, loss of ligand binding (LLB), and Ca2+ influx through a G alpha 2-independent pathway that may not involve G proteins. Here, we have expressed cAR1 and a related receptor, cAR3, in a g beta- strain (Lilly, P., Wu. L., Welker, D. L., and Devreotes, P. N. (1993) Genes & Dev. 7,986-995), which lacks G protein activity. Both cell lines failed to aggregate, a process requiring the G alpha 2 and G beta- subunits. In contrast, cAR1 phosphorylation in cAR1/g beta- cells showed a time course and cAMP dose dependence indistinguishable from those of cAR1/G beta+ controls. cAMP-induced LLB was also normal in the cAR1/g beta- cells. Finally, cAR1/g beta- cells and cAR3/g beta- cells showed a Ca2+ response with kinetics, agonist dependence, ion specificity, and sensitivity to depolarization agents that were like those of G beta+ controls, although they accumulated fewer Ca2+ ions per cAMP receptor than the control strains. Together, these results suggest that the G beta-subunit is not required for the activation or attenuation of cAR1 phosphorylation, LLB, or Ca2+ influx. It may, however, serve to amplify the Ca2+ response, possibly by modulating other intracellular Ca2+ signal transduction pathways.
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- J L Milne
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2185
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Caterina MJ, Hereld D, Devreotes PN. Occupancy of the Dictyostelium cAMP receptor, cAR1, induces a reduction in affinity which depends upon COOH-terminal serine residues. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:4418-23. [PMID: 7876207 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.9.4418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Many G-protein-coupled receptors display a rapid decrease in ligand binding following pretreatment with agonist. cAR1, a cAMP receptor expressed early in the developmental program of Dictyostelium, mediates chemotaxis, activation of adenylyl cyclase, and gene expression changes that bring about the aggregation of 10(5) amoebae to form a multicellular structure. Occupancy of cAR1 by cAMP initiates multiple desensitization processes, one of which is an apparent reduction in binding sites. In transformed cells expressing cAR1 constitutively, Scatchard analyses revealed that this apparent loss of ligand binding is largely due to a significant reduction in the affinity of cAR1 for cAMP. A parallel increase in the dose dependence of cAR1-mediated cAMP uptake was observed. Consistent with these findings, proteolysis of intact cells and immunofluorescence suggested that cAR1 remains on the cell-surface following cAMP treatment. Finally, agonist-induced loss of ligand binding is impaired in cAR1 mutants lacking a cluster of cytoplasmic serine residues, which are targets of cAMP-induced phosphorylation.
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- M J Caterina
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Kim JY, Devreotes PN. Random chimeragenesis of G-protein-coupled receptors. Mapping the affinity of the cAMP chemoattractant receptors in Dictyostelium. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)61965-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Souza GM, Klein C, Maia JC, Da Silva AM. Calcium uptake and gp80 messenger RNA destabilization follows cAMP receptor down regulation in Dictyostelium discoideum. Cell Signal 1994; 6:883-95. [PMID: 7718408 DOI: 10.1016/0898-6568(94)90021-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The mechanism by which high concentrations of cAMP selectively destabilize the gp80 mRNA in Dictyostelium discoideum was investigated. This treatment which leads to down-regulation of the cAMP receptor was also found to cause an increase in calcium uptake. Given this observation, we sought a role for calcium as a second messenger in the degradation of the gp80 mRNA. Changes in the mRNA levels were examined after treating cells with compounds known to alter their intracellular Ca2+ concentrations. This included the use of A23187, Ca2+, 8-(N,N-diethylamino)octyl-3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoate HC1 (TMB-8), LiCl and 8-p-chlorophenylthioadenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (ClPhS-Ado-3':5'-P). The sum of the data suggest that it is the cAMP-induced influx of Ca2+ across the plasma membrane, as apposed to a cAMP-mediated release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores, that initiates gp80 mRNA degradation. Treatment of cells with Concanavalin A (ConA) to induce cAMP receptor down-regulation, also causes a reduction in gp80 mRNA levels and an increase in calcium uptake.
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- G M Souza
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
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Serine 113 is the site of receptor-mediated phosphorylation of the Dictyostelium G protein alpha-subunit G alpha 2. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)31910-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Hereld D, Vaughan R, Kim J, Borleis J, Devreotes P. Localization of ligand-induced phosphorylation sites to serine clusters in the C-terminal domain of the Dictyostelium cAMP receptor, cAR1. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37479-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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The similarity of the signal transduction systems controlling early development in Dictyostelium with those mediating the action of hormones and neurotransmitters in mammals suggests that these strategies were quickly refined as eukaryotic cells began to communicate. These simple, genetically tractable organisms thus offer a great opportunity to elucidate these pathways further. Combinations of the null mutants are being studied to address questions of redundancy, cross-talk, and networking. Since cAR1, cAR2, G alpha 2, G beta, ACA, CRAC, PKA, and PDE are essential to the program, the capacity to rescue these phenotypes also serves as a convenient screen for functional mutations in these proteins. Finally, random mutagenesis by the recently developed method of restriction enzyme-mediated insertion provides a means to isolate new genes (Kuspa et al., 1992). The clear phenotypes of the null mutants observed so far indicate that the Dictyostelium developmental program can be used as a guide to isolate novel components of G protein-linked pathways.
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- P N Devreotes
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2185
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Mutation of the third intracellular loop of the cAMP receptor, cAR1, of Dictyostelium yields mutants impaired in multiple signaling pathways. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)42288-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lohse MJ. Molecular mechanisms of membrane receptor desensitization. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1179:171-88. [PMID: 7692969 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(93)90139-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 311] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- M J Lohse
- Laboratorium für Molekulare Biologie, Universität München, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
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Johnson RL, Saxe CL, Gollop R, Kimmel AR, Devreotes PN. Identification and targeted gene disruption of cAR3, a cAMP receptor subtype expressed during multicellular stages of Dictyostelium development. Genes Dev 1993; 7:273-82. [PMID: 8382181 DOI: 10.1101/gad.7.2.273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Extracellular cAMP acts through cell-surface receptors to coordinate the developmental program of Dictyostelium. A cAMP receptor (cAR1), which is expressed during early aggregation, has been cloned and sequenced previously. We have identified a new receptor subtype, cAR3, that has approximately 56% and 69% amino acid identity with cAR1 and cAR2, respectively. cAR1, cAR2, or cAR3 expressed from plasmid in growing Dictyostelium cells can be photoaffinity labeled with 8-N3[32P]cAMP and phosphorylated when stimulated with cAMP. cAR3 RNA was not present during growth but appeared during late aggregation. Its expression peaked at 9 hr and then fell to a reduced level that was maintained until culmination. The expression of cAR3 protein followed a similar pattern, but with a 3-hr lag, and reached a maximum at the mound stage. In contrast, cAR1 protein was expressed predominantly during early aggregation and at low levels during later stages. At their respective peaks of expression, there were approximately 5 x 10(3) cAR3 sites per cell compared with approximately 7 x 10(4) cAR2 sites per cell. The cAR3 gene was disrupted by homologous recombination in several different parental cell lines. Surprisingly, the car3- cell lines display no obvious phenotype.
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- R L Johnson
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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Hereld D, Devreotes PN. The cAMP receptor family of Dictyostelium. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1993; 137B:35-47. [PMID: 1336005 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62599-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- D Hereld
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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- W F Loomis
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Gomez J, Benovic JL. Molecular and regulatory properties of the adenylyl cyclase-coupled beta-adrenergic receptors. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1993; 137B:1-34. [PMID: 1336003 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)62598-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- J Gomez
- Department of Pharmacology, Jefferson Cancer Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
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Doza YN, Minke B, Chorev M, Selinger Z. Characterization of fly rhodopsin kinase. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 209:1035-40. [PMID: 1425685 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17379.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Rhodopsin kinase activity of Musca domestica was characterized in a reconstitution assay, using urea-treated eye membranes as substrate and a purified fraction of eye cytosol as the enzyme. Analysis of kinase activity in fly eye, brain and abdomen extracts by reconstitution assays revealed that fly rhodopsin kinase is an eye-specific enzyme. It preferentially phosphorylates the light-activated form of rhodopsin (metarhodopsin) and has little activity with other protein substrates. Rhodopsin kinase binds to metarhodopsin and is released from rhodopsin-containing membranes. Metarhodopsin is a poor substrate for kinases from tissues other than the eye, making it a unique substrate for rhodopsin kinase. Rhodopsin kinase is inhibited by heparin, but not by the protein inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Its Km for ATP is 9 microM. Since fly rhodopsin is coupled to phospholipase C, studies of the interaction of rhodopsin with rhodopsin kinase can be useful in analysis of the reactions that lead to termination of the inositol-phospholipid-signaling pathway.
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- Y N Doza
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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Ludérus ME, Kesbeke F, Knetsch ML, Van Driel R, Reymond CD, Snaar-Jagalska BE. Ligand-independent reduction of cAMP receptors in Dictyostelium discoideum cells over-expressing a mutated ras gene. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1992; 208:235-40. [PMID: 1325900 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1992.tb17178.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Drug-resistance selection in Dictyostelium discoideum transformants resulted in up to eight-times-higher ras protein levels. Over-production of the wild-type ras protein did not lead to an aberrant phenotype. Increased levels of the mutated [G12T]ras protein, however, were correlated with severe deficiencies in aggregation and development. This aberrant phenotype is associated with reduced cAMP binding, due to a lower number of cell-surface receptors. We show that both RNA and cAMP-receptor-protein levels are reduced. These results indicate that ras in Dictyostelium discoideum seems to be involved in regulating cAMP-receptor-gene expression.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Cyclic AMP/metabolism
- Dictyostelium/genetics
- Drug Resistance, Microbial/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Genes, ras/genetics
- Gentamicins
- Mutagenesis
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Receptors, Cyclic AMP/genetics
- Receptors, Cyclic AMP/metabolism
- Transformation, Genetic
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- M E Ludérus
- Cell Biology & Genetics Unit, Leiden University, The Netherlands
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Li Y, Halloy J, Martiel JL, Wurster B, Goldbeter A. Suppression of chaos by periodic oscillations in a model for cyclic AMP signalling in Dictyostelium cells. EXPERIENTIA 1992; 48:603-6. [PMID: 1319352 DOI: 10.1007/bf01920247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We investigate how the introduction of cells oscillating periodically affects the behaviour of a suspension of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae undergoing chaotic oscillations of cyclic AMP. The analysis of a model indicates that a tiny proportion of periodic cells suffices to transform chaos into periodic oscillations in such suspensions. A similar result is obtained by forcing the aperiodic oscillations by a small-amplitude, periodic input of cyclic AMP. The results provide an explanation for the observation of regular oscillations in suspensions of a putatively chaotic mutant of Dictyostelium discoideum. More generally, the results show how chaos in biological systems may disappear through the coupling with periodic oscillations.
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- Y Li
- Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
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Simon MN, Winckler T, Mutzel R, Véron M, da Costa Maia JC. Serine/threonine protein phosphatases in Dictyostelium discoideum: no evidence for type I activity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1992; 184:1142-51. [PMID: 1317167 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(05)80002-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Extracts from Dictyostelium discoideum contain type 2A and 2C serine/threonine-specific protein phosphatases with properties very similar to those from mammals according to their sensitivity to okadaic acid and to their dependence for divalent cations. In contrast, no type 1 protein phosphatase is found at any time of development, neither in the cytosolic nor in the particulate fraction, using glycogen phosphorylase a, casein, histone or the non-proteinous 4-Methylumbelliferyl phosphate as substrates. Both type 2A and 2C protein phosphatase activities remain constant throughout the development cycle.
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- M N Simon
- Departamento de Bioquimica, Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Condeelis J, Jones J, Segall JE. Chemotaxis of metastatic tumor cells: clues to mechanisms from the Dictyostelium paradigm. Cancer Metastasis Rev 1992; 11:55-68. [PMID: 1511497 DOI: 10.1007/bf00047603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Amoeboid movement, and in some cases, amoeboid chemotaxis, is a key step in tumor metastasis. The high degree of conservation in signal transduction pathways and motile machinery in eukaryotic cells suggests that insights and molecular probes developed from the study of these processes in easily manipulated experimental model systems will be applicable directly to experimentally intractable tumor cells. One such model system, Dictyostelium discoideum, is discussed in terms of the molecular events involved in amoeboid chemotaxis. The application of insights and assays developed with Dictyostelium to early events in the chemotaxis of Lewis lung carcinoma cells is reviewed.
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- J Condeelis
- Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
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A mathematical model is presented that obeys a strong form of Weber's law--over a range of adapting and stimulus intensities, equal contrast stimuli evoke identical responses. To account for the strong Weber's law, the adaptive stage in the proposed model employs a "delayed" reverse reaction along with a power-law input. It is suggested that this Weber's law mechanism is responsible for a slow, voltage-uncorrelated component of adaptation in the vertebrate photoreceptor. A plausible biochemical mechanism is the G-protein cycle with phosphorylation of photoactivated photopigment (and binding of arrestin to the phosphorylated photopigment) as the adaptive process. In an Appendix, features of the general model and implications of a specific biochemical model are examined by computer simulation.
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- S M Dawis
- Laboratory of Biophysics, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021-6399
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Rhodopsin kinase and the beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (beta ARK) catalyse the phosphorylation of the activated forms of the G-protein-coupled receptors, rhodopsin and the beta 2-adrenergic receptor (beta 2AR), respectively. The interaction between receptor and kinase is independent of second messengers and appears to involve a multipoint attachment of kinase and substrate with the specificity being restricted by both the primary amino acid sequence and conformation of the substrate. Kinetic, functional and sequence information reveals that rhodopsin kinase and beta ARK are closely related, suggesting they may be members of a family of G-protein-coupled receptor kinases.
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- K Palczewski
- Dow Neurological Sciences Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center, Portland, OR 97209
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Mann SK, Firtel RA. A developmentally regulated, putative serine/threonine protein kinase is essential for development in Dictyostelium. Mech Dev 1991; 35:89-101. [PMID: 1836954 DOI: 10.1016/0925-4773(91)90060-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Using PCR technology, we have cloned parts of three developmentally regulated putative serine/threonine kinases from Dictyostelium. All show significant homology to members of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A/protein kinase C subfamilies. A genomic clone encoding one of these, DdPK3, has been isolated and sequenced. The open reading frame encodes a protein of 648 amino acids with the conserved kinase domain in the C-terminal half. The protein encoded by this gene is unusual in that it contains long homopolymer runs in the N-terminal half of the protein, including a long run of 88 amino acids in which 73 are glutamine residues. To examine the function of DdPK3, a gene disruption was created via homologous recombination. Ddpk3- cells do not aggregate by themselves but will co-aggregate with wild-type cells. However, after aggregation these cells are 'sloughed off' and do not proceed further through development, but are found as a discrete mass alongside the fruiting body formed by the wild-type cells. Analysis of signal transduction pathways indicates that cAMP pulse-induced expression of aggregation stage-specific genes is normal in Ddpk3- cells, as is induction of the prestalk gene Ddras in single cell assays. However, cAMP induction of the late promoters of cAMP receptor cAR1 and of two prespore-specific genes is absent under similar conditions. These cells show normal activation of adenylate cyclase and normal phosphorylation of the G alpha protein G alpha 2 in response to cAMP. The possible role of DdPK3 in Dictyostelium development is discussed.
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- S K Mann
- Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Benovic J, Onorato J, Arriza J, Stone W, Lohse M, Jenkins N, Gilbert D, Copeland N, Caron M, Lefkowitz R. Cloning, expression, and chromosomal localization of beta-adrenergic receptor kinase 2. A new member of the receptor kinase family. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)98568-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Johnson RL, Vaughan RA, Caterina MJ, Van Haastert PJ, Devreotes PN. Overexpression of the cAMP receptor 1 in growing Dictyostelium cells. Biochemistry 1991; 30:6982-6. [PMID: 1648967 DOI: 10.1021/bi00242a025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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cAR1, the cAMP receptor expressed normally during the early aggregation stage of the Dictyostelium developmental program, has been expressed during the growth stage, when only low amounts of endogenous receptors are present. Transformants expressing cAR1 have 7-40 times over growth stage and 3-5-fold over aggregation stage levels of endogenous receptors. The high amounts of cAR1 protein expressed constitutively throughout early development did not drastically disrupt the developmental program; the onset of aggregation was delayed by 1-3 h, and then subsequent stages proceeded normally. The affinity of the expressed cAR1 was similar to that of the endogenous receptors in aggregation stage cells when measured either in phosphate buffer (two affinity states with Kd's of approximately 30 and 300 nM) or in 3 M ammonium sulfate (one affinity state with a Kd of 2-3 nM). When expressed during growth, cAR1 did not appear to couple to its normal effectors since these cells failed to carry out chemotaxis or to elevate cGMP or cAMP levels when stimulated with cAMP. However, cAMP stimulated phosphorylation, and loss of ligand binding of cAR1 did occur. Like aggregation stage control cells, the cAR1 protein shifted in apparent molecular mass from 40 to 43 kDa and became highly phosphorylated when exposed to cAMP. In addition, the number of surface cAMP binding sites in cAR1 cells was reduced by over 80% during prolonged cAMP stimulation. These results define a useful system to express altered cAR1 proteins and examine their regulatory functions.
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- R L Johnson
- Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21205
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